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The term "concentration camp" is very inappropriate here.

• lmm 7y ago
  It's the established, standard name for such internment camps, going back to the Boer War. There's a popular assumption that "concentration camp" always means "death camp" but that's not the established definition of the term.
• gwd 7y ago
  > concentration camp. n. a place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area It's literally a camp where you "concentrate" some minority group in a small area to make them easier to deal with; that's exactly what was done to the Japanese. The fact that the concentration camps in Germany were worse (because they enslaved and killed mass numbers of them) doesn't make the one in the US any less a concentration camp.
• dragonwriter 7y ago
  The US canps were exactly historically normal concentration camps, designed to concentrate a disfavored population for easier control, as had been used by many powers for quite a long time before WWII. The idea that the label is inappropriate comes entirely from going beyond accepting the term’s ludicrously euphemistic use for Nazi extermination camps, but to preferring that use exclusively, which is about like saying it's inappropriate to use the term “shower” for washing chambers with overhead water sprayers because the term was euphemistically used for Nazi extermination chambers.